Panola County, MS Water Table Trend
Is the water table dropping in Panola County, MS?
Over 71 years of USGS readings, the well tracking Panola County's aquifer is holding roughly steady: 0.3 ft per decade.
This is one representative well, not a county-wide survey, the same grain limit every page here discloses.
Panola County's source well, in detail
Depth to water at the last reading was 11.2 ft below land surface. Readings span 1955-06-01 to 2026-04-02, 122 measurements from USGS well USGS-341752090034501 (107q0001 Panola), part of the National Water Information System. The qualifying bar and the OLS fit behind this trend are documented in the methodology guide.
How Panola County compares nationally
Panola County sits at rank 460th of 1,449 ranked counties, ordered rising-to-declining, so a low number means a rising water table and a high one means fast decline. Panola County, Mississippi is home to about 32,764 people. See the fastest-moving counties guide for how Panola County stacks up against the most extreme cases nationally.
Depth and quality are separate questions
This page answers a depth question, not a quality one. A well in Panola County can be stable in depth and still worth testing for quality, or declining and still test clean, the two are measured separately, and only a direct test settles the second one.